Luk 5:38 | RWP | e4.org | Must be put ( βλητεον ). This verbal adjective in -τεος rather than -τος appears here alone in the N.T. though it is common enough in Attic Greek. It is a survival of the literary style. This is the impersonal use and is transitive in sense here and governs the accusative "new wine" ( οινον νεον ), though the agent is not expressed (Robertson, Grammar , p. 1097).

‏ Luke 5:38

Must be put ( βλητεον ). This verbal adjective in -τεος rather than -τος appears here alone in the N.T. though it is common enough in Attic Greek. It is a survival of the literary style. This is the impersonal use and is transitive in sense here and governs the accusative "new wine" ( οινον νεον ), though the agent is not expressed (Robertson, Grammar, p. 1097).